In My Own Words: Austin
Austin shares his story growing up in Western Sydney during the early days of the epidemic.
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February 2024
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July 2022
Social connection can make all the difference
Positive Life offers ways to build and develop your friendship networks to lessen the effects of HIV stigma.
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January 2022
When I contracted COVID-19
Four years after being diagnosed with HIV, Benny shares his experience of recovering from COVID-19.
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December 2020
I experienced HIV stigma in hospital
I am Angel and I am from the southern part of Africa. I am 39 years old and this is my story.
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February 2020
Communities make the difference to me
I have been living with HIV for over 22 years, five of which I was unaware I was positive.
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July 2019
What makes consent, consent?
What does consent mean? Is consent always an enthusiastic ‘yes’, or is it sometimes the absence of a ‘no’?
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May 2019
HIV Inside Out
I sero-converted back in 2003 and was very clear in my own mind, I didn’t want to be defined by HIV.
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December 2018
Breaking down stigma one barrier at a time
Matthew Hall was diagnosed with HIV as a 23-year-old in 1995. Given effective antiretroviral treatment was yet to become available, HIV was considered a death sentence at this time.
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December 2018
HIV Stigma, the Social Disease Pandemic
Treating someone differently based on their race, culture, language, ethnicity or national origin is never okay, yet is a daily reality for many of us living with HIV in Australia.
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December 2018
Flashback to a time of stigma and fear
I was diagnosed with HIV during the broadcasting of the hysterical Grim Reaper campaign in 1987, at eighteen years old.
